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The National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” (NaUKMA), one of the leading Ukrainian universities, has traditionally begun with a lecture for all students, usually read by important scholars, writers, and public figures before they are awarded professor emeritus of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Previously, such September 1 inaugural lectures were read by figures of such caliber as Paul Ricoeur, Sergei Averintsev, Adam Michnik. This year, to the surprise and indignation of many, the man invited to address the students was Sergei Byelokon' – a Ukrainian historian, unfortunately famous not only for his archival studies, but for an anti-Semitic position openly voiced in his publications.

CHISINAU, Moldova (JTA) — To tour the largely empty Jewish communities of Moldova and its capital, Chisinau — once known by Jews the world over as Kishinev — is not to wonder where did all the Jews go but why there are any remaining.